KAREN HOPKINS

According to the bio on Amazon: "Karen Hopkins was born in California but moved to Chile as a teenager. After completing a university degree she worked for Pan American Airlines, based in London, England. She traveled with Pan Am in Europe, the Middle East, India, and South America.

After Pan Am, Karen taught Spanish and English in various places: a private school in Panama, at the "most remote school in the United States"—Ticaboo, Utah, at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, on the Navajo Reservation, and on the Arizona/Mexico border.

She traveled with her husband and their eight children through Mexico and Central America, camping in the remote highlands of Chiapas and Guatemala. Karen currently lives and writes at home in southern Arizona."